Before the cosmos lit up with stars and galaxies, the universe passed through a dark, silent era. But new findings suggest that this silence may have been warmer than scientists once believed. Using ...

Three enormous and peculiar radio light rings were discovered far, far outside our own galaxy, shedding more light on one of ...

A faint radio "whisper" from ancient hydrogen reveals the universe was heating up long before it filled with starlight.

Reionization is thought to have been driven by ultraviolet light produced by both early stars and active galactic nuclei ...

Scientists have blown stargazers’ collective minds after discovering a massive dark object in space that’s completely ...

Scientists have captured the first image of two black holes orbiting each other in the quasar OJ287, confirming a long-held ...

Scientists have shot two black holes orbiting each other, offering the first ever definitive proof that these intergalactic ...

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The early universe was already warm before reionization, revealing that the first stars did not flicker on in an icy cosmos.

At first glance, it looks like an uneven smudge. But when astronomers enhanced the image, sharp edges appeared — two distinct ...

In a groundbreaking achievement, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has provided an unprecedented level of detail of the ...

Featured in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is a lenticular galaxy called NGC 4753 with intricate cosmic dust structures. Here on Earth, dust is a collection of small particles ...